Rail tie and fastener.



W. F.- BAKER.

RAIL TIE AND FASTENER.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 15, 1915.

Patented Nov. 2, 1915.

Inventor Attorneys COLUMBIA PLANOOP-AIH Co WASMIN wILLIAivI F.' IBAKER,,or OKLAHOMA, OKLAHOMA, AssIenon TO BAKER s'rnnn TIE CORPORATION, orOKLAHOMA, OKLAHOMA.

RAIL TIE AND FASTENER.

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To all whomit may concern Be it known that I, WILLIAM F. BAKER, acitizen of the United States, residing at Oklahoma city, in the countyof Oklahoma and State of Oklahoma, have invented a newand usefulRail Tieand Fastener, of Which the following is a specification.

' This invention relates to rail ties and fasteners, one of the objects,of the invention being to provide a novel form of metallic railway tiewhich is so constructed as to be held against creeping upon the roadbed, said tie furthermore being adaptedto trans-' mit the thrusts fromthe forwardly moving train downwardly against the road bed so thatdanger of displacement of the tie is reduced to the minimum.

A further object is to provide a novel form of rail fastenerwhich serves"to bridge and tie together the sides of the tie, said fastenerconstituting a rail supporting means especially desirable at railjointsfor holding the rails against sagging at their ends.

With the foregoing and other objects in view which will appear as thedescription proceeds, the invention resides in the combination andarrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafterdescribed and claimed, it being understood that changes in the preciseembodiment of the invention herein disclosed, can be made within thescope of what is claimed, without departing from the spirit of theinvention.

In the accompanying drawings the preferred form of the invention hasbeen shown.

In said drawings: Figure l is a plan view of a portion of a track havingties and fas teners such as constitute the present invention. Fig. 2 isa side elevation of two ties and rails mounted thereon and fastenedthereto. Fig. 3 is a section on line A-B Fig. 1, said section being onan enlarged scale. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of one of the railfasteners used in connection with the tie. Fig. 5 is a perspective viewof said fastener inverted. Fig. 6 is a perspective view of one endportion of one of the ties.

Referring to the figures by characters of reference 1 designates atrough-like metal tie the upstanding walls of which are preferablydisposed substantially at 45 degrees,

each of these walls being provided along its upper edge with anoutstanding flange 2.

The flanges, walls and bottom of the tie are Specification of LettersPatent. Panbgntgfl NOV, 2; 19151 A lication mammar 15, 1915. Serial No.8,305.

corrugated transversely as shown so that,

when the tie is once seated in the road bed, these corrugations willtend to hold it against creeping in the direction of the length of thetie. Furthermore by providing walls inclined as described, the thrustexerted by a train moving along the track Adjacent each end of the tieis provided a smooth portion 3 free of corrugations and which is adaptedto support a rail and the fastening means used in connection with therail. This fastening means includes a fish plate 4 provided, along thebottomthereof, with a channeled base 5 adapted to receive one of thebase flanges of the rail R. Tongues 6 are cut from this base orotherwise formed integral therewith and extend outwardly from the baseat a distance apart equal to the distance between the flanges 2. Thus anintermediate tongue 7 is formed between the tongues 6 and which extendsinwardly under the rail engaged by the fish plate. The end portions ofthe base 5 likewise form supporting tongues 8 which extend under therail engaged thereby.

Two fish plates such as herein described are adapted to be fastened toopposite sides of the meeting portions of rails R, they being held tothe rails by bolts 9 as ordinarily. The tongues 6 are bolted orotherwise fastened to the smooth portions 3 of the flanges 2, thetongues 7 extending into the tie 1 between the walls thereof andextending under the meeting ends of the rails while the tongues 8 extendunder the rails at points beyond but close to the tie. Thus it will beseen that the rail fastening means not only serves to hold the railstogether and also to attach themtothe tie, but also conmitutes abridging means for preventing the tie from spreading under the weight ofthe rails and the load thereon. The intermediate tongue 7 which extendsunder the meeting ends of the rails constitutes a support for said endsand, consequently, danger of said ends sagging is reduced to theminimum.

Where only one rail is to be engaged by a fastening means it is notnecessary to provideltongues"adapted to extend under] Instead thefastening means 1nthe rail. cludes merely a rall engaging flange 10Which fits snugly against the web and upon the base flange of the'rail'and merges into a base 11 Which is bolted or Otherwise secured upon theflanges of the tie and serves to not only fasten the rail to the tie butalso to prevent the tie from spreading under 1 10 the load to Which itis subjected.

For the purpose of draining the tie, apertimes 12' may beforine'd inthe'bottom there- I of and, wher'e'the' tie is placed upon abridgestructure or the like, certain of these apertures can be usedlfor thereception of bolts or'other fastening means wherebv the tie can besecured in place. i The fastening devices 10l1 need not be bolted to therails a but can be merely fitted snugly against them, this beingsufficient to properly hold e rails tothe ties.

Vfhat is claimed is:

1.- Thej combination with a trough-like metallic railway tie, of a railengaging plate, outwardly extending tongues thereon secured upon thesideportions of thetie, said Copies of this'patent maybe obtained for plateandtongues constituting means for V holding the 'tie against spreadingunder the weight to which itis subjected, a tongue extending inwardlyfrom the plate to engage and support a rail above the space within thetie, and additional tongues extending inwardly from the plate close toand beyond the sides of the tie for supporting rails.

2. The combination with a trough-like metallic railway tie havingupwardly diverging walls, and a longitudinal flange extending outwardlyfrom each wall, of a rail engaging plate, outwardly extending tonguesthereon secured upon. the flanges on the tie,

' said plates and tongues constituting means ture in the presence of twowitnesses.

VILLIAM F. BAKER. Witnesses:

JAS. W. BOLDING, O. E. JoNns.

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